Learning and Organisational Development Coordinator


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Details

Reference number

311320

Salary

£29,539
Further information can be found in the attached Document “Additional Pay Information”.
A
Civil Service Pension
with an average employer contribution of 27%

Job grade

Executive Officer
B3

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

UKHO – People

Type of role

Administration / Corporate Support
Education and Training
Human Resources
Other

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

Taunton, Somerset, South West

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a fun and supportive team to enhance the delivery of well-designed and user centric Learning & Organisational Development (L&OD) activities that support the evolution and development of the UKHO and it’s people. We provide support towards becoming a learning organisation with a particular focus on leadership and management development, developing our culture and bringing our values to life, allowing the UKHO to deliver the Corporate plan and achieve our culture vision statement:

“We show pride and passion in meeting the need of our customers. Working in a supportive environment underpinned by trust, everyone is inspired, confident and empowered to achieve their best every day.”

You will forge collaborative relationships with stakeholders to promote the L&OD offer across the UKHO, responding promptly to requests, meeting commitments, and interacting in a way that empowers and assists staff and line managers. There will be opportunities to be involved in a wide variety of activities, including:

  • working with diverse stakeholders both internal and external
  • planning and supporting the design and delivery of new training products and initiatives for both face to face and eLearning products
  • delivering training for example orientation
  • producing and analysing meaningful management information
  • supporting the procurement of training for the organisation.

There will also be opportunities to develop your own skills and knowledge in the learning and organisational development field.

Your work will contribute to enabling the UKHO to transform and achieve its ambition of being an inclusive and diverse organisation where we show pride and passion in meeting the needs of our customers both now and in the future. You will help create a supportive environment underpinned by trust where everyone is inspired, confident and empowered to achieve their best everyday.

Hybrid working with attendance in the Taunton office, UK required to meet business requirements, approximately 2/3 days a week.

Job description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the management and planning of their own workload to meet outcomes. Working as an integral part of the L&OD team to support cultural change and delivery of Corporate Strategic Objective 4 (building the organisation of the future) projects by:

  • Forging collaborative relationships with stakeholders to promote the L&OD offer across UKHO; providing excellent customer service by responding promptly to requests and meeting commitments.
  • Delivering core L&OD products including the Organisational Orientation for new starters and coordinating the Employee ‘Ways of Working’ agendas and meetings 
  • Supporting the co-ordination of external MOD talent programmes and administrating the process for use of the UKHO 360 tool.
  • Collating and distributing reports and key metrics to identified stakeholders as required to support the review and evaluation of L&OD priorities. Ensuring all data is up to date and to the required standards of Information Assurance in its compilation and storage. 
  • Working with the Digital Learning Advisor to use the UKHO LMS to create content and events and carry out evaluations. Assist with the planning of talent, management development and L&OD related events e.g. Learning at Work Week, and continuously improving the ‘way we do things’
  • Working with the L&OD administrator where required and with Procurement when necessary regarding procurement of Talent and Management training and other development requirements. Taking responsibility to raise Requisitions and Purchase Orders using SAP where necessary. 
  • Supporting to establish L&OD requirements and prepare & implement plans and activities, providing support around the design of training, its delivery and evaluation and creating communication documents, briefing materials and in-house learning materials / resources

Person specification

Please note that we will only score against the sift and interview criteria and not the essential information below.

In addition to having a passion for learning and organisational development and the commitment and motivation to provide a quality service the successful candidate will have:

  • Demonstrable experience of planning and delivering training or learning experiences and group discussions.
  • CIPD level 4 certificate in Learning and Development practice (or equivalent) or a willingness to work towards.
  • Excellent oral and written communication – being able to engage with clarity, professionalism and enthusiasm, that develops trust, supports empowerment and encourages others to contribute their ideas and take action. 
  • Evidence of excellent interpersonal skills, to build effective and sustained networks and professional collaborative relationships within the organisation and across organisations. 
  • Excellent demonstrable experience of planning, prioritising and delivering multiple outcomes at pace. 
  • Knowledge of training cycle activities, learning evaluation and learning styles. 
  • Ability to manipulate and interpret management information to support decision making.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Alongside your salary of £29,539, UK Hydrographic Office contributes
£7,975 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

At the UK Hydrographic Office, it’s very important to us that our people feel valued. 

We offer a huge range of benefits such as training and development, well-being support, flexible/ homeworking, a fantastic state of the art building, high spec equipment, and so much more.

See our attached Candidate Information Pack for more details.

 

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

How to Apply:

Please send a copy of your anonymised CV by clicking “Apply Now” at the bottom of this page. You will also be asked to complete a Statement of Suitabiltiy where you can demonstrate how you meet the criteria as outlined below. 

Timeline:

  • Advert Closes for applications: Wednesday 4th October 2023
  • Shortlisting: week commencing 9th October 2023
  • Interviews: week commencing 23rd October 2023

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.

Sift/Shortlist Criteria: 

Should we receive a high volume of applications, they will first be assessed against the lead criteria as shown below.  Only those that score highly enough against that criteria will have their applications considered against the other criteria listed.

All applications are processed anonymously. You will be asked to submit a copy of your CV.  Please note this is for information purposes only and will not be scored. 

You will be asked to complete a statement of suitability of up to 1000 words which will be used to short-list your application against the criteira below.  We would suggest you use 250 words for each and that you demonstrate the lead criteria first.

Experience:

  • Demonstrable experience of delivery against training cycle activities planning, delivering and evaluating adult training or learning experiences (Lead criteria)
  • Excellent oral and written communication – being able to engage with clarity, professionalism and enthusiasm, that develops trust, supports empowerment and encourages others to contribute their ideas and take action.
  • Evidence of excellent interpersonal skills, to build effective and sustained networks and professional collaborative relationships within the organisation and across organisations.
  • Excellent demonstrable experience of planning, prioritising and delivering multiple outcomes at pace.

Interview Criteria: 

Part of your interview will involve a presentation, details of which will be provided to those invited to interview.  The presentation will be marked against the below criteria:

  • Civil Service Behaviour: Working Together (Level 2)
  • Civil Service Behaviour: Communicating and Influencing (Level 2)
  • Experience: Demonstrable experience of delivery against training cycle activities planning, delivering and evaluating adult training or learning experiences

You will then be interviewed against the following criteria: 

Civil Service Behaviours (Level 2):

See here for further information: Success Profiles – Civil Service Behaviours (publishing.service.gov.uk) 

Process:  

  • Single Stage Interview via TEAMS. You will be contacted to book a suitable slot if you are shortlisted (see our Candidate Pack for further information)
  • Interview will be with a panel of no more than 2 people and will last approx. 60 mins

Onboarding Checks:

In the event you are offered a role with us, you will be required to go through Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks which will include Employment and Right to Work Checks. Please see our attached Candidate Pack for further details and Terms.

Please note, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.

BPSS – non reserved
This is a Ministry of Defence non-reserved post and is open to UK, British Commonwealth, and European Economic Area nationals. Successful applicants will be required to pass the Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) and will therefore need to provide evidence if they have resided outside of the UK for a period of 6 months or longer within the last 3 years. This is not a bar to employment, but a successful applicant will be required to provide sufficient evidence to allow the UKHO to conduct meaningful background checks. Please contact the recruitment team on the email address below if you have any concerns regarding this.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : recruitment.queries@ukho.gov.uk
  • Email : recruitment.queries@ukho.gov.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : recruitment.queries@ukho.gov.uk

Further information

The Department’s recruitment processes are underpinned by the requirement of selection for appointment based on merit, open and fair competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles, details of which can be found at http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact recruitment.queries@ukho.gov.uk If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can further contact the Civil Service Commission at: civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk or view more details at http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk

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